[toast0]

Usenet is probably better, but to a rough approximation, nobody has access to a usenet feed anymore.

Mailing lists allow people to use threads if they want (assuming nobody thrashes the threads headers by using terrible email software from Microsoft/Google), and also allows people to read from the firehose if the want. And there's plenty of threaded web views of mailing lists available for lurkers.

[m463]

I miss usenet.

I remember when it was popular, computers had limited storage and bandwidth, and you had to "sip" usenet articles because it was a giant firehose of data, mostly hand-typed text. (excepting alt.binaries.*)

[mghackerlady]

You can still use it. Eternal September provides free access to everything but binaries. There's a number of relatively active groups and some that'll get a post or two a month